MLK 2006
Packet by Illinois (UIUC)
1. In the aza-variant of this reaction, an imine is substituted for one of the reactants, allowing for preparation of tetrahydropyridines. Its desired end product and mechanism are similar the Prins Reaction, the Huisgen Reaction, and especially the Cope Rearrangement, which differs in that it uses a 1,5 starting product. Niobium pentachloride or another Lewis acid can often be used to catalyze it and sometimes to control the ratio of endo to exo product. The stereochemistry of substituents on the reactants is preserved in the product, as per the "cis principle" formulated by Stein and one of the reaction's namesakes. FTP, name this cycloaddition reaction that synthesizes a ring with a double bond from a conjugated diene and a dienophile, named for two German chemists.
Answer: Diels-Alder reaction
2. Raised by a German physician named Horstanus, this author spoke only Latin until age 6. Pierre Villey was the first to distinguish one edition of his magnum opus from the “Bordeaux Exemplar” written 8 years later and its marginal notes, and also the first to assert the influence of Sextus Empiricus on this author’s writings. Many of his ideas were collected by Pierre Charron in De la sagesse and were deeply skepticist in nature, andafter retiring from the Parliament of Bordeaux, this man devised a literary form intended to test his judgment. FTP, name this author of “Of Coaches,” “Of Experience,” “Of Cannibals,” and “The Apology of Raymond Sebon”, a 16th century French author who wrote some famous Essays.
Answer:Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
3. This man stayed at the White Hart Hotel for some time as an expatriate in Malvern. At thirteen, he received the title of dejazmach, and at nineteen became governor of Harar. Soon after, he married Menen Asfaw, the niece to Lij Iyasu, who was deposed in favor of empress Zaudituunder whom he would serve as regent. Upon the death of the empress, he assumed the throne under a name meaning “Power of Trinity” in Amharic, and would remain in power for over 40 years, except during the Italian invasion in the 1930s. Deposed in 1974 by the Dergue, FTP name this heavy-fisted Ethiopian leader and object of veneration for Rastafarians.
Answer: His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God. (accept Ras Lij Tafari Makonnenin before end)
4. It references Jacob Fugger and Benjamin Ferdinand, and was applied to the study of Chinese history by Yu Ying-Shih. Richard Baxter is also considered as an example in the last chapter, and its third chapter begins with an analysis of the term “Beruf.” It discusses the “tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order,” ends by focusing on asceticism, and talks about the iron cage of rationality.One chapter, “Luther’s Conception of the Calling,” talks about how asceticism leads to the second title concept, which helps to explain why major business leaders in Europe derive many of their beliefs from Calvinism. FTP, name this classic sociological text also focusing on the “Spirit of Capitalism”, written by Max Weber.
Answer:The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
5. This role was first played on film by FlorenceLawrence in a 1908 silent version. In 1945, Vivien Leigh played the role opposite Claude Rains as her first famous lover. Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon played opposite Claudette Colbert in this role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 version. The role featured most famously in a 1963 Joseph Mankiewicz film for which the lead actress became the first woman to be paid a million dollars for a part. Rex Harrison and Richard Burton play the two main lovers of, FTP, what most famous role of Elizabeth Taylor, the daughter of Ptolemy XII and lover of Antony.
Answer: Cleopatra
6. This man’s second violin concerto, in G minor, was written for Robert Soëtens [soy-TAN], whom the composer was on tour with in 1935. The winner of the 1913 Rubinstein Prize, this chess enthusiast and author of a piano transcription of War and Peace used his “little puppies” and early opera “The Giant” to convince Reinhold Gliere [glee-AIR] to teach him composition, a relationship that yielded the Opus 25 “Classical” symphony. FTP, identify this composer of Fiery Angel, Alexander Nevsky, the Scythian Suite, Lieutenant Kijé, and the Love for Three Oranges; a Ukrainian probably best known for Romeo and Juliet and Peter and the Wolf.
Answer: Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
7. First discovered by Juan Diaz de Solis, it received its present name from Sebastian Cabot, though it was governed by Cabeza de Vaca. José Hernández founded a newspaper in 1874 with it in the title. Charles III of Spain created a new viceroyalty in 1776 called by this name. Towns very near its banks include a namesake one, Carmelo, Berazategui, and Morón. Roughly horn-shaped, it widens from 30 miles at its tip to 136 miles at its base, long after it has received the Paraná and Uruguay Rivers. With Buenos Aires and Montivideo on its banks, FTP, this is what prominent estuary of South America named for its legendary silver.
Answer: Rio de la Plata or River Plate
8. In fish and some amphibians, their major functions are carried out in separate organs, while in birds, they are single structures, but with tissue types intermingled rather than layered. A pheochromocytoma is a tumor of the chromaffin cells contained within a part of them, and the zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata, and zona reticularis make up their cortical layers. Their excessive production of catecholaminesand other hormones like cortisol can lead to Cushing’s Disease. Chronic insufficiency of them is also known as Addison’s disease. FTP, name these glands located on the kidneys which produce hormones such as aldosterone and epinephrine.
Answer: adrenal or suprarenal glands
9. It resulted in a fine of one billion marks, though it is unclear how this was ever planned to be collected, but it was a percentage of wealth of the offending party. The term for it was coined by Walter Funk, and Reinhard Heydrich was heavily involved, but claimed it to have been spontaneous. Resulting indirectly from the closing of the shop of Zindel Grynszpan [GREENSPAN] and more directly from Herschel Grynszpan’s assassination of Ernst von Rath, it took place on October 9 and 10, after Hermann Goering declared the shooting to be an example of “International Jewry.” FTP, name this 1938 massacre of Jews in Germany and Austria, whose name literally translates as “Night of the Broken Glass”.
Answer:Kristallnacht (accept Night of the Broken Glass on early buzz or Crystal Night, etc.)
10. Helenus tells him to build where he sees a snow-white sow suckled by 36 snow-white piglets, and assuages his fears regarding the prophecy of the harpy Celaeno, which stated that he would not build until hunger had compelled him and his companions to eat their tables. After a visit to the Cumaean Sibyl and a catabasis to the Underworld, this man and his companions end up in Latium, where they ally themselves with the Etruscans and go to war, which ends when this man slays Turnus in single combat. FTP, name the man of whom the poet sings along with arms, who spurns Dido and goes on an Odyssey-like journey after the fall of Troy in an epic poem by Virgil.
Answer: Aeneas
11. Later in life, he authored the books Kindergarten Chats and Autobiography of an Idea. A student of Frank Furness, his work includes the National Farmer’s Bank in Owatanna, Minnesota, the Merchants’ National Bank inGrinell, Iowa, and the BayardBuilding. A larger work of his was the SchillerBuilding, which later became the Garrick Theater, before being demolished. The TransportationBuilding was his contribution to the Columbian Exposition and the Carson, Pirie, Scott store is the last product of his long-time partnership with Dankmar Adler. FTP, name this architect of the ChicagoSchool, responsible for the WainwrightBuilding and the dicta “form follows function.”
Answer: Louis Sullivan
12. One character of this name in the Old Testament is a false prophet mentioned by Jeremiah, who says the king of Babylon roasted him in a fire. The second was a son of Omri, and fought three wars against Ben-Hadad of Damascus. He was killed in battle at Ramoth-Gilead, as prophesied by Micaiah, whom he had imprisoned. This seventh King of Israel introduced the worship of Ba'al and persecuted Elijah, who rebuked him in particular for seizing the vineyard of Naboth at the request of his wife, who was subsequently hurled from a palace balcony. FTP, name this wicked king known chiefly as the husband of Jezebel and the namesake of a crazy whaler.
Answer: Ahab
13. In the movie of this name, the main character is baffled by the use of the three seashells and a lieutenant is comforted by singing the jingle “My dog’s better than your dog.” In the song, a man claims that he’s “a beast in space, an acid taste, a primitive gong stuffed in your face”. All restaurants have become Taco Bells and sex is conducted without the unsanitary process of “fluid transfer” in the movie. The song protests “living like a caged-up animal, criminal” and the “television newsman so subliminal”, recommending “bringing down the walls of wonderland.” FTP, give either the title of this Def Leppard song or a movie based on Brave New Worldfeaturing characters like Lenina Huxley John Spartan, played by Sylvester Stallone.
Answer: Demolition Man
14. One of the commanders supposedly uttered the phrase, “We must conquer or die here,” and ordered a green banner to be displayed. The arrival of Alvaro de Bazán was decisive in this engagement, where the left wing was commanded by Agustino Barbarigo, whoheld off the force led by the pirate Chulouk Bey, though Barbarigo was himself killed. The fortress of Famagusta had been attacked the previous year, and Uluch Ali was initially successful here until the 64 warships with the Papal blessing of Pius Vemerged under the half-brother of Philip II, Don Juan of Austria,and began to rout Ali Pasha and the Ottomans. Famously fought in by Cervantes, FTP, name this October 7th, 1571victory for the Holy League.
Answer: Battle of Lepanto
15. It was referred to as “the most wonderful experiment in the world” by Barbara Stepansky, who cites a similar exclamation of Rutherford on its importance. Alexander Langsdorf improved upon it in the 1930s creating a self-diffusion type that allowed for continuous production. The so-called “sensitive area” of it exists just below the bottom and physicists generally try to maximize this area, for example by applying an electric field. A so-called knock-on forms a T-like structure, an alpha particle forms a straight path of definite length, and gamma rays do not produce tracks. Improved upon by another invention of Donald Glaser, FTP, name this device invented by Charles Wilson, a chamber named for the atmospheric objects produced within it.
Answer: cloud chamber (or just cloud after chamber)
16. One of his poems thrice states “Let night fall, let the hours go by/The days pass on and here I stand.” Married to Jacqueline Kolb, his poem “Zone” discusses a tormented poet who wanders through the streets after losing his mistress, and he authored the collection The Heresiarch and Co. British poet Christopher Logue wrote the poem Come to the Edge on the 50th anniversary of his death, and an Allen Ginsberg poem talks about his grave. One of his more famous works was published with woodcuts by Raoul Dufy, and The Poet Assassinated is a popular collage of stories. Borrowed from by the composer Francis Poulenc, FTP, name this Italian-born French poet and author of Calligrammes and The Breasts of Tiresias.
Answer: Guillaume Apollinaire
17. Carluccio depicted this personage “von Laussel” and was critically analyzed by several artists, and Alexander Cabanel depicted this figure with five winged cherubs floating above. Sometimes depicted “Anadyomene,” Rossetti did this subject “Verticordia,” and she appeared in the original title of Aubrey Beardsley’s Under the Hill. Cranach the Elder depicted this woman with her son, and Titian did her son and “an Organist.” Depicted by Agnolo Bronzino with Cupid, Folly, and Time, and by Canova as a “Victrix,” FTP, name this classical goddess shown at Urbino by Titian, the subject of an armless marble statue found at Milos.
Answer: Venus
18. Some of her friends and mentors included Alan Root, who suggested a pornographic name for her monograph, Louise Roberts, Dorothy Liddell, and especially Abbe Lemozi who was working at Cabrerets at the time. Her father Erskine Nicol was a landscape painter, a talent she shared to some degree, as shown in her illustration of a book written by Gertrude Canton-Thompson. Some of her best work came at Laetoli, but other places like Hembury Fort, Jaywick Sands, and RusingaIsland proved fruitful too. Her autobiography is entitled Disclosing the Past, but she’s best known for “Zinjanthropus Boise” and “Proconsul Africanus.” FTP, name this anthropologist who had a husband named Louis and a son named Richard.
Answer: Mary Leakey
19. Section 3 of it deals with the area surrounding FortAdams and the Mississippi River. A “Mr. Smith” from Maryland was given permission to bring in a bill in addition to it, and many spoke out against it including Charles Brockden Brown and Theophilus Parsons of the Essex Junto, and it prompted a small rebellion in the town of Lyme. Attacked bitterly by William Cullen Bryant in a poem of the same name and represented in political cartoons as a snapping turtle, it was eventually replaced with a law that revoked it but threatened to implement it again if neutrality rights were violated, Macon’s Bill No. 2. Also amended by the Nonintercourse Act, FTP, name this 1807 act that responded to the impressment controversy by banning trade.
Answer:Embargo Act
20. This poet writes “We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death.” In “The Firebombers,” which joins “Going Gone” and “Mother and Daughter” in The Book of Folly. Like Wallace Stevens, she saw her art as the “supreme fiction”, a comment that her longtime friend Maxine Kumin echoed in a later interview. The author of “Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn,” her posthumous collections include 45 Mercy Street and Words for Dr. Y. She won the Pulitzer for her 1966 collection Live or Die, but may be better-known for poems like “You, Doctor Martin,” “The Bells”, and “All My Pretty Ones.” The victim of self-asphyxiation in 1974, FTP, name this American author of the poetry collection To Bedlam and Part Way Back.
Answer:Anne Gray Sexton
1. Answer some things about Australian history, FTSNOP.
A. For ten, on April 29, 1770, James Cook made his first landfall on the continent on the coast of this bay, close to the land now occupied by Sydney's KingsfordSmithInternationalAirport.
Answer: Botany Bay
B. For five, the Rum Rebellion ended this man’s tenure as governor of the New South Wales colony. He commanded the Parramatta, but you probably know him better for his work commanding the Bounty.
Answer: William Bligh
C. For ten, ire at greedy local policies and perceived unfairness towards miners in the wake of a gold rush led to this 1854 revolt in Victoria where miners put forth demands modeled on those of the Chartists.
Answer: Eureka Stockade
D. For a final five, he became the first prime minister of Australia in 1901.
Answer: Sir Edmund Barton
2. 30-20-10, name the American author from works.
A. [30] Jimmie Higgins; Springtime and Harvest; The Return of Lanny Budd; The Brass Check
B. [20] King Coal; Boston; Dragon’s Teeth
C. [10] Oil!; The Jungle
Answer:Upton Sinclair
3. Answer the following related to minerals, FTPE.
A. Lepidolite, muscovite, and biotite are types of this mineral with perfect basal cleavage which often has an appearance of thin layers or flakes.
Answer: micas
B. Biotite micas appear in the discontinuous region of this geological diagram, with olivines and pyroxenes, while calcium-rich and sodium-rich feldspars occupy the continuous branch.
Answer: Bowen’s Reaction Series
C. These types of minerals are sandwiched between pyroxenes and biotite micas in Bowen’s reaction series, meaning that they form when magma containing pyroxenes cools sufficiently.
Answer: amphiboles
4. Name the following about a young author and her work, FTPE.
A. Born in North London in 1975, she became a Radcliffe fellow at HarvardUniversity and has penned the novels On Beauty and The Autograph Man. She has a nonfiction work entitled Fail Better in the working and she wrote the erotic anthology Pieces of Flesh.
Answer: Zadie Smith
B. Smith’s prizewinning first novel about three families in contemporary London has this title, which perhaps refers to a universal similarity between all different ethnic groups.